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ACM SIGBED/SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award

Introduction

In honor of our late colleague and friend, Dr. Frank Anger, the
ACM
Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
has joined together with
the ACM Special
Interest Group on Embedded Systems to present the Frank Anger
Memorial Award. Dr. Frank Anger, an outstanding national leader in the
field of software engineering, died
in a tragic automobile accident on July 8, 2004. One of Frank's primary
goals was supporting the crossover of ideas between research communities
engaged in software. As an outstanding scientist and recognized national
leader in computer science, he worked toward this goal until his
untimely death.

In the spirit of Frank's work and legacy, the Executive Committees
of SIGBED and SIGSOFT, with support from the US National Science
Foundation, have established a student travel
award in his name. The award provides
stipends for two students, one named by each SIG, to attend the flagship
conference of the other SIG. The award is meant to
improve the mutual awareness of the two research communities to the
opportunities and challenges emerging in complimentary research areas.

The Award

A student member of SIGSOFT will be provided a
stipend of up to $2000 to
cover travel expenses to attend a flagship conference of SIGBED, and a
student member of SIGBED will be provided a stipend of up to $2000 to
cover travel expenses to attend a flagship conference of SIGSOFT.

Important Dates

Starting with awards given out in 2014, SIGSOFT will adopt the
same nomination deadline for the Frank Anger Award as for its other annual
awards. This means that the next round of nominations for this award will
be solicited by December 15, 2013, for which recipients will be announced
in January 2014.

Detailed Information

Full information on the application procedure and rules of the contest
are given in the following pages: